Dempstee beatty



UNITED STATES PATENT i OFFICE. f

D'EMPSTEE'BEATTY, oEMIsIIAwAKA, INDIANA, AssIeNoE To THE BEATTY y lEEIIIING GOIIIIANY, 0E sAME PLAGE.

METHOD oF MAKING'COMBINEVD KNIT ANDCLoTlf-l BooTrs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent, No.380,163, dated` March 27, 1888.

Application lled J une 4, 1887. Serial No. 240.287. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEMrsTER BEATTY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mishawakain the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Combined Knit and Cloth Boots; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, which'will enable others skilled. in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to. the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- A Figure l is a side view of my improved combined knit and cloth boot, showing the same as it appears before it has been fulled down to its inal size. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the boot after it has been partly fulled down. Fig. 3 is a side view'showing the boot shown in Fig. 2 after the same has been turned and'lasted. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line x w of Fig. l; and Fig. 5 is a sectional View taken on line y y of Fig. 3.

The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Vall the gures.

My invention relates to a combined knit and cloth boot or shoe; and it consists in the improved method of making the same, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring to the several parts thereof by letter, I .construct my improved combined knit 'and cloth boot or shoe by first knitting the boot or stocking of a size large enough to allow of its being fulled down, and thus condensed and hardened to the required size for the finished boot or shoe. A indicates this knit stocking or boot. (Shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 of the drawings.) I then construct the cloth boot B by cutting it out of either woven or felt cloth, C, and then sewing it up by the long back and front seams, D, so that when thus sewed up it is of sufficient size to fit snugly over the knit boot-A, and the cloth-sewed boot having been pulled over the knit boot, the two are sewed together by the rows of stitches shown at E, F, and G. The double or combination boot thus formed is fulled down nearly to its final size, as shown inF-ig. 2, and

5o is then turned with the knit -boot outside and fulled and hardened down to its final size, and nally treed and lasted into the form desired,

as shown inFig. 3. When the combined boot or shoe is thus fulled and treed or lasted, it is condensedand hardened, so that it forms, practically, one material, the sectional view,y Fig. 4, showing the two materials before the boot is fulled down, while Fig. 5 shows them' cut cloth boot is then drawn over the knit boot and the two sewed together. The com bined boot is then fulled down nearly to its nal size, is then turned with the knit boot outside, is fulledgdown to the Iinal point, and then properly shaped on a tree or last.

It will be seen that my improved combined' knit and cloth boot is simple in construction,

can be readily and rapidly manufactured, and

is a very perfect article when completed.

Having thus described myinvention, what I vtwo pieces and the said pieces sewed together with va front and a back seam, as stated. The

claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of 8o l. The hereindescribed method of making I a combined knit and cloth boot, consisting in making a knit boot and a cloth boot and placing them one within the other, the cloth boot being formed by being cut from the cloth,

then sewed up by the longback and frontl seams, and then fulling them to the required size.

2. The herein-described'method of making a combined knit and cloth boot, consisting in making a knit boot and a cloth boot and placing the one within the other and securing them together with rows of stitches and partly fulling them, then turning them with the knit boot outside, and then fulling them to the required size, and nally in treeing them.

In testimony that I claim the foregoingas my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses. f

DEMPSTER BEATTY.

Witnesses: i

HENRY EeeLEs'roN,

HATTIE E. YENN. 

